Republicans wrongly vote against U.N. disabled treaty

December 15, 2012

If Republicans wonder why they are losing national elections and will continue to do so in the future, they just have to take a look at their recent vote and behavior in the Senate. Sen. Toomey and most of the GOP senators shamefully voted against a U.N. treaty that would have supported equal opportunity and rights for disabled Americans and citizens throughout the world. The treaty was modeled after our Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

This law for the disabled was championed by disabled veteran and former GOP Sen. Bob Dole and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. Sen. Dole, in his wheelchair, witnessed this recent disgraceful vote by some of his former GOP colleagues. The iconic former senator from Kansas had to be wondering what has happened to the party of Lincoln, who ended slavery, and of his hero Gen. Eisenhower, who liberated Europe. How did Republicans become this petty and misguided?